Background: In 2003, Blair's official spokesman Tom
Kelly attempted to smear the deceased Dr David Kelly, claiming
that he had been a "Walter Mitty" character. It then
transpired that Tony Blair had made demonstrably
fanciful claims about his past. In a radio
interview in 1997, he claimed to have watched his "teenage
hero" Jackie Milburn of Newcastle United from behind the
goal at St James's Park. Milburn left Newcastle when Blair was 4
years old, and there were no seats behind the goals until the
Nineties. Blair told Des O'Connor that he stowed away at
Newcastle Airport on a flight to the Bahamas, at the age of 14.
At that time, there were no flights from Newcastle to the
Bahamas...

A Walter Mitty Prime Minister - who perceives non-existent
flights, alternative history soccer clubs, and dire WMD threats
from defenceless Third World countries - might imagine a
ballistic missile attack. Although some of the tales are amusing,
this is hardly the ideal character to be trusted with a finger on
the nuclear button.